An NC-17 blog … or is it?

Belle de Jour has long been one of my favorite blogs, but not for the reason you’ll soon think is obvious. Belle is apparently the pseudonym for, apparently, a high-end London call girl who wrote for a good while and then disappeared for a good while. She’s apparently back, apparently retired and apparently with boyfriend.

I say “apparently” because everything about Belle is unknown — whether she’s really a call girl or whether she’s really a 14-year-old boy living in Secaucus, New Jersey. Indeed, when the British newspaper The Guardian named the site the best-written blog in 2003, the editors hedged their bets by noting, “Some judges were concerned it was a work of fiction, but even if it is, it remains an impressive piece of writing.”

And they’re correct. The writing is witty, wry and insightful. If it’s not true, it should be. And that, Little Adam, is the real reason BduJ is one of my fav sites.

Prude alert: Any site written by a purported working girl is bound to spend time talking about naughty bits and what grown people sometimes do with them. BduJ is and does, although not to any extended extent. But unless you have your computer monitor set to run body type at 72 points (newspaper-speak for really, really big) the site is office safe. IOW, there are no pictures.